The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-03

Inc SUBJECT OF this sketch was
born in Washington, Penn. In
1851 he entered Washington Col
lege, and graduated in 1855 from
that institution. Believing that
his duty called him to preach the
gospel, in the fall of 1856 he enter
ed the theological department Of
Cumberland University, located at
Lebanon, Tenn, and finished his
theological course in 1858 and was
at once called to take charge of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church;
at Fayetteville, Lineoln county,
Tenn.
In 1858 he married the daughter
of Rev. A. G. Smith, and was en-
ployed by the Board of Missions to
take charge of the Mission Church
at Paducah, KY, where he was Ia
boring at the outbreak of the civil
war.
A circumstance, trivial in itself,
has made lis name famous in near
ly every household in America.
In visiting the family of one of
his Pensioners, his attention was
directed to q singular variety of
herbs in their possession, and he
made inquiries regarding them.
He was told that many years ago,
during the early settlement of Ten
nessee, q kinsman Of this family,
emigrating from North Carolina,
pitched his camp for a night in the
Cherokee Nations reservation in
North Georgia, near an Indian viii
lage.
In his family was a girl about
fifteen years old. just passing to
womanhood. During the evening
this girl was attacked by violent
pains, which threw her into spasms.
An old Indian squaW witnessed it,
and, without a word, went to her
wigwam, selected some herbs from
her store, prepared a decoction, and
administered it to the suffering girl.
in five minutes the pain was en-
tirely relieved.
The grateful mother of the girl
begged Of the squaw a small guam
tity of the herbs. Afterward, when
using them, she found a few seeds
in bud Of the herbs, which she
planted and raised the herbs from
year to year for half a century.
The herbs that attracted Mr.
McElree's attention were descend
ants of this stock. He was told
that they possessed wonderful quail
tiles in the cure of diseases pecu-
liar to females.
Mr.. McElree carried away some
of them with him, and was aston
ished at their miraculous action in
cases offemale complaints supposed
to be incurable. He raised the
herbs in his garden and furnished
his neighbors gratuitously with a
wine made from them for several
years; but its reputation spread
abroad and the demand was
soon beyond his limited means to
supply. IU 1879 he solicited the
Chattanooga Medicine Co. to take
charge of the manufacture and sale
of the Wine.
The Medicine Company sent
quantity of the Wine to their
customers all over the coun-
try, instructing them to fur
nish it free of charge to every
afflicted lady they could hear Of
About seven thousand cases were
treated in this way and less than
five hundred failures were reported
Every class of female disease was
treated; chronic cases of twenty
years standing were cured. Old
and young, rich and poor, doctors
and clergymen all testified to the
wonderful virtues of McElreo's
Wine of Cardui. 1t was found that
the Wine was not only an
Emmenagogue, but the most as
tonishing tonic for women known
to medical science. Ladies who
were weak, nervous and debilitated
that the Wine restored
their strength, quieted their nerves
and increased their flesh and encr-
gy. Young girls were carried over
a critical period in their lives by it,
in perfect health and safety.
The manufacture of the Wine to
supply the demand has taxed the
of one of the largest modi-
cine companies in the country
They have however been equal to
the emergency, and McElree Wine
Of Cardui, or WOman's Relief will
be household word in our section
from this time forth.
Mr.. McElrce has done and Is
Fill doing much good by preaching
the gospel of Christ; but his discov-
cry of McElree's Wine of Cardui or
relief is likely to hand
his name dow to posterity, follow
ed by the blessings of thousands Of
women